The Mysterious Package Company
This looks really cool. I’d never heard of the company before, and receiving mystery packages in the mail sounds like a great surprise. The mysterious items you will get seem genuinely creative and evocative.

“For several years we at The Mysterious Package Company have turned the daily trip to the mailbox into an adventure by providing unique mysteries by traditional mail. These packages tell amazing stories in multiple chapters—each arriving weeks apart—and together they place the recipient at the centre of the narrative, with customized newspaper articles, diary pages, lab notes, photographs, and so forth, often referencing long-lost (or non-existent) relatives.

These adventures culminate in a handmade wooden crate that has been nailed shut. Within, a custom-crafted artifact acts as the touchstone for the experience, a centerpiece that will spark the telling and retelling of the unexpected sequence of events that began with a single simple letter.

We pay extraordinary attention to the details of each experience, right down to the forged postmark on each letter and how the paper is aged. We include real history in the story, which lends authenticity to the experience, disguising where reality ends and the fiction begins.”

Beast: The Primordial
Beast: The Primordial is the newest game from White Wolf. This kickstarter is to get nice editions of the hardcovers, the game is coming out no matter what.

“In Beast: the Primordial, you take the role of one of the Begotten, descendants of an ancient nightmare creature called the Dark Mother. Beasts view each other — and the other supernatural creatures of the World of Darkness — as family, which means that Beast is explicitly designed to be crossover-friendly, both in terms of game mechanics and setting.

Beware, though. Just because the Begotten see the vampires, werewolves, mages, changelings, and mummies as kin, doesn’t mean the feeling is mutual.”

Elite Gaming Tokens
We don’t get a lot of chances to play in person, but tokens like these will help keep track of all the possible conditions that can come up in the game.

“Whether it is a deep game of tactical brilliance or just a good time with friends, people enjoy a visually appealing gaming experience. Not long ago we at Broken Egg Games starting producing ways to enhance our very own table tops with tools to help keep our games clean and most importantly, FUN! We believe all gamers have put a hearty time investment into their own miniatures and board games just like us and are looking for high quality tokens to match. With a “can do” attitude and some wonderful luck when flipping through our contacts, we found the people and tools to bring our concepts of an epic range of the high quality tokens: The Elite Gaming Tokens to life!”

New Riyera Fantasy Novel: The Death of Dulgath
Aser got me to listen to the first book in this series with him, and I really loved the main characters and am excited to see new adventures in the books.

“This project marks my 29th novel and the 9th featuring Hadrian Blackwater (an idealistic ex-mercenary) and Royce Melborn (a cynical thief). It’s also my second Kickstarter. I’ve created it to provide hardcover copies (and hopefully distribution through bookstores and libraries). Although this Kickstarter is being used to fund the hardcover print run, you can receive the story in all kinds of formats including ebooks and trade paperbacks.”

Lady of Innsmouth
A cool statue of a Lady of Innsmouth

“I have a real love of taking things which are often considered ugly or creepy and finding the beauty in them. In H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth the residents of Innsmouth are described as being ugly and fish-like with strange unblinking eyes. They are disliked and distrusted by outsiders mostly because they are different. I wanted to take that rough description and create how maybe one of the Innsmouth folk looked as she started transforming into her aquatic self before joining her family below Devil’s Reef.”

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Calamityware Dinner Plate 6
No Thank You, Evil!
Monster Dice
Mists of Audazzle
Perception
The Sedefkar Simulacrum
Part Time Gods: Fate Conversion
Saiqlo Dice
H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast Live

The Sedefkar Simulacrum
Just imagine me sitting in front of you making grabby hands towards this. I’m currently running Horror on the Orient Express, and if we were playing in person I would have this at my table in a heart beat. It’s such a cool prop to have at your table, and I think it would really help bring that aspect of the game to life, much more then the cutouts you get in the box set.

“The Sedefkar Simulacrum is a prop, licensed by Chaosium, for the Call of Cthulhu Campaign : Horror on the Orient Express. It is intended for keepers and gamers but we hope all Lovecraft enthusiasts and amateurs of weird artifacts will find it intriguing.

The sculpture of the Sedefkar Simulacrum will be cast in polyurethane; when assembled, it will be 21 cm (8 inches) long. It will be composed of six parts (head, legs, arms and torso) that will be assembled with a clever magnetic system so when put together it will look like a reduced model of the real thing.

After the sculpture is cast in Greece, it will be hand-painted by me – Delphes. Each sculpture will be one of a kind. Each will have its own signed and numbered certificate of authenticity.

I have worked very hard to figure out how to paint The Simulacrum in a way that matches the description given in the books: a changing color “according to strength of the light bathing it”. As such, I will use a traditional technique where I apply successive layers of fine pigments. It increases the colors’ effects in the patina, so that the material looks like metal and copper, wood and ceramic. With your investment you will get a unique artifact, hand made in a traditional way.”

Part Time Gods: Fate Conversion
I heard Fandible play through Part Time Gods and loved the idea of the game. I haven’t had a chance to play it yet, but they’re converting the game to Fate! I’m going to get the chance to interview the creator and others involved in the is project later this week, and I can’t wait to learn more about this. (It’s also Fandible’s Kickstarter pick of the month!)

“Third Eye Games’ ground-breaking RPG Part-Time Gods was released in 2011: a game of balancing one’s mortal and divine life. Maintaining one’s human bonds and deciding how much to give in to one’s godhood are all strong themes running through the game, which is still one of Third Eye Games’ highest selling gamelines.

In Part-Time Gods, you take on the role of brand new gods in our modern world today. The Source, theorized to be the creator of all things in the universe, was sealed away by the old gods who are now mostly dead and gone, but the entity no struggled in its cage and is trying to free itself. this has leaked its energy into our world and started creating hundreds of new gods, and even more monsters (called Outsiders) who are out for god’s blood. All of this, while you also attempt to maintain your normal life. Dealing too deep into your godhood forces you to cut ties with your human side, but clinging too closely limits your growth. It is a hard choice, but one every god must make.

The original system was the DGS-Lite, which fully explored the themes and moods of the game, but we are also huge fans of the Fate System from Evil Hat Productions. With the help of Encoded Designs (Phil Vecchione, Chris Sneizak, Bob Everson, and Shawn Merwin) we’ve fully realized Part-Time Gods using the Fate Core system.”

Saiqlo Dice
These are some really pretty d6, and I haven’t seen any that look quite like them before. The project funded quickly, which is always a great sign!

“While teaching English in Japan, I found some amazing beads and buttons in a shop. I found out that they were made by a small, family-owned company and contacted them. I wanted to know if they’d ever made dice! They said, no, but what a cool idea! It took a year to figure out how to do it. We hope you’ll agree that the results are spectacular! ”

H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast Live
This podcast is one of the best for just gaining a ton of knowledge on the Mythos, and they’re planning a live show!

“The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast (hppodcraft.com) has been running since 2009 and has done two very successful live shows. One in Leeds, West Yorkshire in 2012 and one at the NecronomiCon in Providence in 2013. Now that it’s 2015, we feel it’s about time to step up our game and do two live shows in one year! One in Providence, again at NecronomiCon and in Chicago, Illinois this October. And we need your help to do it!

This Kickstarter is not just about live shows, we plan on doing audio recordings of these shows for all the folks that can’t make it. We’re also going to be trying out our Lovecraftian Comedy Quiz show as well. Trivia and comedy in one live event? YES!

All audio will initially be exclusively for backers of this Kickstarter. So if you can’t make it to Providence, you can still be part of the fun!”

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Calamityware Dinner Plate 6
No Thank You, Evil!
Monster Dice
Mists of Audazzle
Polyhedral Dice Warrior Set
Perception

Sometimes you find some cool new things on Kickstarter. Other times…you find these.

When water is just too boring for you to drink, and adding one of a myriad of calorie free powders adds too many calories, then you can just use your TasteBud. It snaps on your water bottle and releases a scent to trick you into thinking you’re drinking something flavorful.

I don’t know, I’d rather just drink water. Or add some Crystal Light.

If you’re going to the beach and don’t have any friends, the BACK-EEZ will help you reach all those difficult to reach spots on your back to help you put on that sunscreen. But on the minus side, everyone will know you don’t have any friends. Better not to risk the skin cancer though!

One of the problems when you’re a bike-commuter is making sure people can see you. Usually people use reflective tape or lights. Or I guess you could just hang lit-up balls from your seat.

Bike Balls remind me of Truck Nutz, but I guess they’re more functional? I’m afraid I’m not getting a pair for my bike though. Maybe when they release light up ovaries.

Perception
This game features a blind protagonist who is investigating an abandoned house that keep showing up in her dreams. I’m curious about this game even though it doesn’t look to be accessible to blind gamers. Plus they keep using Braille as part of the ‘look’ for the game, but they’re using Grade 1 Braille, and not even punctuating things correctly, so I wonder if they have any consultation with people who are actually blind for their game development. However, some of the developers worked on the Bioshock series, which I love, so I want to see where they go with it.

“Perception is a first-person narrative horror adventure that tells the story of Cassie, a blind heroine who uses her extraordinary hearing and razor-sharp wits to unravel the mysteries of an abandoned estate that haunts her dreams.

After months of research, she discovers an abandoned mansion in Gloucester MA. Once there, Cassie finds that Echo Bluff is worse than her nightmares. A ghastly Presence has tormented its inhabitants over generations, and it now hunts Cassie. She must solve the estate’s mysteries or become one of its victims.

While Cassie doesn’t have an arsenal of weapons, she does have her wit, her cane and her smart phone. Armed with these tools, she finds clues to unravel history as she navigates her way through the home via echolocation. But the house and its deadly Presence go to great lengths to prevent her from deciphering its secrets.”

Polyhedral Dice Warrior Set
These are some pretty awesome looking dice. I bet they’re not balanced at all, but I want them in my collection ASAP.

“PolyHero Dice are the result of a creative collaboration between brothers Dann and Greg May. We’ve worked together in the visual arts for more than 20 years, as graphic designers, artists and 3D animators. We’ve also played Dungeons and Dragons (and other RPGs) together from an early age, starting with the red boxed Basic Set (oh, and even before that a game Dann made up and tried to make Greg play).

This project is a labour of love for us; to create imaginative, 3D-sculpted custom dice for our favourite hobby, and for the pure joy of holding and rolling them. We are very motivated to run this Kickstarter well and get the product into more hot little hands than our own.”

Mists of Audazzle
Unlike Perception, this game is developed for visually impaired players and sighted players to play together.

“Mists of Audazzle” will bring story driven game networking to all players of Audazzle games now and in the future. It will especially allow Daisy (who is blind), her friends and family (some are partially sighted and some have normal sight) to play, compete, create and have fun together. See our website for details.

By building Mists of Audazzle, players and members get to expand and propose new story lines by participating in the “Clan Babble Challenge”. Through connected Mist’s game episodes like “JumpInSauceRS” Each player gets a totally unique and secret character (Mists Incarnation) and are born into a Mists Clan. Once they get going we will make it simple and fun to challenge closest rivals to time based levels of given games.”

Monster Dice
These dice look pretty cool, but I’m not sure how they’re going to work as actual dice. They’d be cool to have on your shelf at least!

“The idea behind this project was to turn your normal D6 Dice into a work of art, something that looks just as good as the Armies on your battle field and looks just as awesome as the cards/board on your board games. For me to achieve this I didn’t just want to just add some basic etching, I wanted to go 3D and give the dice some serious attitude and features. As well as making the dice 3D I wanted the consumer to have the ability to print the dice using 3D technology.

The five original dice concepts are inspired by a number of fantasy based creatures; we have the Monster Dice, Vampire Dice, Undead Dice, Werewolf Dice, and the Orc Dice. The Dice are made from high detailed resin to bring out the detail and to enable the consumer to paint them with ease. The dice themselves measure 16MM; this is the most common size of dice used in gaming, however, we have also included a 19MM Version of the dice and a 25MM Version. Every dice has the art placed where the number 6 would be situated; they are perfect for collectors, gamers and hobbyists. Special care has been taken to ensure the resin is protected when the dice is rolled by making the edges rounded.”

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The Cthulhu Breakfast Club
Elsinore: A Time Looping Game
The Adventure Case
Ctrl-Alt-Del 1.0: The Box
Wink Pens
A Feminist Deck
CHIP- The World’s Smallest Computer
Fibonacci Clock
Fall of Magic
Tinker Dice II
Calamityware Dinner Plate 6
Crestfallen RPG
Terralith Organic Metal Dice
No Thank You, Evil!